Over the last few years my writing output has slowed to a trickle. While there are plenty of reasons for this, the most notable is the ever-larger stack of unfinished drafts littering my desktop, my notebook, my phone. The general thrusts of something to say, but left incomplete, unpublished. Why?…
In light of recent changes, the California Golden Blogs is facing an uncertain future, and there is a distinct possibility that that future involves a platform other than SBNation. This uncertainty has caused me to consider more closely what has worked well about CGB, that perhaps such success may be…
Is this my two-week’s notice from @GoldenBlogs ? https://t.co/sI45wMzwd7 — Erik Johannessen (@erikrjoh) December 16, 2019 _Well, sure, being let go via Tweet sucks, but I'll try not to let my visceral reaction impact my analysis._ How We Got Started Just over 13 years ago, I and…
What follows is not a list of my favorite books & articles -- indeed, many of my most beloved pieces of fiction have been left off. Rather, the primary criteria for inclusion on this list is that the piece is "interesting", from an "ideas" perspective. I…
In my professional career, I've written my share of documentation. Some of it has turned out to be very useful, while other documents have ended up being a waste of my time. When I consider what the most useful docs had in common, I find that they generally fall into…
In 2019, I will write again regularly. I started this blog a couple years ago, but have never been able to sustain any momentum. There are some new things I can try, techniques to find space and inspiration to write something coherent and potentially interesting, but the overall goal is…
I've always liked the writing format of the essay, especially given the original meaning of the word "essay": to make an often tentative or experimental effort to perform: try When I write, it is an attempt to say something interesting, or worthwhile, or just in a different way…
When starting something new, I suppose it's worthwhile to lay out what the thing is for, and why it should exist. So we'll start with that. I like blogging, and having not done it for a number of years, I find that I miss it. For many of my ideas,…